Your Views, Beliefs, and Criticism of Psychics?

[Screensaver]

I have dreams and some dreams show stuff happening(obviously) and usually a couple days or weeks later it happens. That's the truth.

Happens to me too. I just write them off as coincidence though. I doubt my most recent dream of flying elephants taking over Nepal will come true.

[New haven america]

I have dreams and some dreams show stuff happening(obviously) and usually a couple days or weeks later it happens. That's the truth.

Happens to me too. I just write them off as coincidence though. I doubt my most recent dream of flying elephants taking over Nepal will come true.

No the first time I was in a car and I looked to the side and a truck that was damaged with a yellow tarp was at the side. A couple weeks later I was in my moms car and that car was at the side. Just happens ever since I was 6.

[Cameroi]

village idiots have, or imagine themselves to have, a vested interest, in discrediting objective honesty.

psychics? sorry, i was reading that as physists. psychics depends on what they claim. the unused portions of the brain could have invisible muscles we know nothing about; connectivity to a non-physical internet, what have you. i'm not too impressed by the pointlessness of spoon bending.

but nonphysical empathic communication is frequently displayed by many life forms.

[Meryuma]

Due to personal experiences in my family I believe that foreseeing the future could very well be a real phenomenon, but professional "psychics" are uniformly charlatans.

[Manahakatouki]

My personal opinion is when something is so secretive or mysterious we can never verify it when it's part of human society...?

Don't trust it...

It's why I'm critical that some celebrities are even human...

[Atomosea]

I predict that psychics are phony. Does that make me psychic?

Yes.

*Universe collapses*

[Essos]

Happens to me too. I just write them off as coincidence though. I doubt my most recent dream of flying elephants taking over Nepal will come true.

No the first time I was in a car and I looked to the side and a truck that was damaged with a yellow tarp was at the side. A couple weeks later I was in my moms car and that car was at the side. Just happens ever since I was 6.

Does not make you psychic. Or if it does it is the most useless psychic power ever.

[Frisivisia]

Due to personal experiences in my family I believe that foreseeing the future could very well be a real phenomenon, but professional "psychics" are uniformly charlatans.

"Due to personal experiences in my family"?

[New haven america]

No the first time I was in a car and I looked to the side and a truck that was damaged with a yellow tarp was at the side. A couple weeks later I was in my moms car and that car was at the side. Just happens ever since I was 6.

Does not make you psychic. Or if it does it is the most useless psychic power ever.

Probably the worst physic power can't happen when I want it to I mean come on really:(. It's been going on since I was 6, so for 8 or 9 years now, about every couple weeks stuff happens in real life that it did in the dream, but only about 5-15 sec's though.

[Samuraikoku]

There is only one psyker that I trust, and he sits on the Golden Throne.

He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies.

[Vitaphone Racing]

Psychics were always interesting entertainment to me. I don't think I ever once believed they knew what to say as opposed to guessing it but I don't see why they should be hated and ridiculed as some seem to suggest. Those who sell their "ability" for amusement should be treated like any other entertainer while those who constantly harrass and strike fear into paranoid people should be treated as any other con-artist.

[Sociobiology]

Happens to me too. I just write them off as coincidence though. I doubt my most recent dream of flying elephants taking over Nepal will come true.

No the first time I was in a car and I looked to the side and a truck that was damaged with a yellow tarp was at the side. A couple weeks later I was in my moms car and that car was at the side. Just happens ever since I was 6.

next time right down your dreams because quite frankly you should not trust your memory, your brain edits together memory.

[Sociobiology]

There are a number of people in the country currently whom claim to have psychic powers and have actually found a way to make a living off of it. Psychic reading stores and websites are big business (in fact there are THREE in my home small town), but the scientific community has had it's doubts about psychics for the past several years.

I know that NS is often critical of religion due to it's lack of scientific evidence (or so people think), but what are your thoughts on "Professional psychics" and their businesses. Are they people exploiting human superstition in order to turn a profit, and if their businesses are scams, should they be illegal? Or are they really blessed individuals with extraordinary powers?

I personally remain extremely skeptical about it, as not much scientific evidence has come forth suggesting some people are born with supernatural abilities while others are not.

It's obvious bollocks, but as far as I'm concern, it's like paying for a magic show. So, if it makes people happy...

then heroin may be the solution.
And it doesn't make people happy in the long run it makes them more messed up.

[Vitaphone Racing]

It's obvious bollocks, but as far as I'm concern, it's like paying for a magic show. So, if it makes people happy...

then heroin may be the solution.
And it doesn't make people happy in the long run it makes them more messed up.

Heroin places an enourmous burden on the health system, what do psychics do that warrants them being treated as heroin dealers?

Source that anyone who visits a psychic becomes more messed up?

As long as scammers are weeded out from this particular industry, I don't get why it shouldn't be allowed to exist.

[Priory Academy USSR]

then heroin may be the solution.
And it doesn't make people happy in the long run it makes them more messed up.

Heroin places an enourmous burden on the health system, what do psychics do that warrants them being treated as heroin dealers?

Source that anyone who visits a psychic becomes more messed up?

As long as scammers are weeded out from this particular industry, I don't get why it shouldn't be allowed to exist.

...But they're all scammers, it just depends to what extent. They take your money in return for a non existent service. Pretty much the textbook definition of a scam.

[Vitaphone Racing]

Heroin places an enourmous burden on the health system, what do psychics do that warrants them being treated as heroin dealers?

Source that anyone who visits a psychic becomes more messed up?

As long as scammers are weeded out from this particular industry, I don't get why it shouldn't be allowed to exist.

...But they're all scammers, it just depends to what extent. They take your money in return for a non existent service. Pretty much the textbook definition of a scam.

The service they sell is your entertainment. It's like the gambling industry; it's intended for entertainment purposes but inevitably some people abuse it and try to make a living off their betting. As long as people understand that they are only buying their entertainment and the vendor doesn't deceive gullible people into a reading against their wishes, we have no problems. .

[Scomagia]

Heroin places an enourmous burden on the health system, what do psychics do that warrants them being treated as heroin dealers?

Source that anyone who visits a psychic becomes more messed up?

As long as scammers are weeded out from this particular industry, I don't get why it shouldn't be allowed to exist.

...But they're all scammers, it just depends to what extent. They take your money in return for a non existent service. Pretty much the textbook definition of a scam.

If people want to waste their money, let them. No need to legislate against stupidity if said stupidity only harms the stupid party.

[Ifreann]

There are a number of people in the country currently whom claim to have psychic powers and have actually found a way to make a living off of it. Psychic reading stores and websites are big business (in fact there are THREE in my home small town), but the scientific community has had it's doubts about psychics for the past several years.

I know that NS is often critical of religion due to it's lack of scientific evidence (or so people think), but what are your thoughts on "Professional psychics" and their businesses. Are they people exploiting human superstition in order to turn a profit, and if their businesses are scams, should they be illegal? Or are they really blessed individuals with extraordinary powers?

I personally remain extremely skeptical about it, as not much scientific evidence has come forth suggesting some people are born with supernatural abilities while others are not.

In the words of Tim Minchin, they're either lying, or mentally ill.

[Czechanada]

As an aspiring criminologist that is interested in white-collar crime, I can conclude that psychics most certainly are a scam.

[Ashmoria]

There are a number of people in the country currently whom claim to have psychic powers and have actually found a way to make a living off of it. Psychic reading stores and websites are big business (in fact there are THREE in my home small town), but the scientific community has had it's doubts about psychics for the past several years.

I know that NS is often critical of religion due to it's lack of scientific evidence (or so people think), but what are your thoughts on "Professional psychics" and their businesses. Are they people exploiting human superstition in order to turn a profit, and if their businesses are scams, should they be illegal? Or are they really blessed individuals with extraordinary powers?

I personally remain extremely skeptical about it, as not much scientific evidence has come forth suggesting some people are born with supernatural abilities while others are not.

its bullshit but is mostly harmless until the psychic announces that you need to give her large sums of money because <whatever>.

[The USOT]

Like any frauds they should be persecuted to the full extent of the law. It bugs me that it isn't considered fraud in this day and age

[Sociobiology]

There are a number of people in the country currently whom claim to have psychic powers and have actually found a way to make a living off of it. Psychic reading stores and websites are big business (in fact there are THREE in my home small town), but the scientific community has had it's doubts about psychics for the past several years.

I know that NS is often critical of religion due to it's lack of scientific evidence (or so people think), but what are your thoughts on "Professional psychics" and their businesses. Are they people exploiting human superstition in order to turn a profit, and if their businesses are scams, should they be illegal? Or are they really blessed individuals with extraordinary powers?

I personally remain extremely skeptical about it, as not much scientific evidence has come forth suggesting some people are born with supernatural abilities while others are not.

its bullshit but is mostly harmless until the psychic announces that you need to give her large sums of money because <whatever>.

or offers you life advice from the other side, or investment advice, or tells you they can heal your cancer. The saddest are the ones that get people hooked so they call their psychic dozens of times a day.
then you get the ones that sue people for pointing out their scam.

[Phocidaea]

Bogus. A service fee for gullibility, I call it.

[Risottia]

There are a number of people in the country

Well, uncouth farmers can claim whatever they want.

currently whom claim to have psychic powers and have actually found a way to make a living off of it. ... Are they people exploiting human superstition in order to turn a profit, and if their businesses are scams, should they be illegal?

Yes, they're scammers and yes they should be tarred, feathered, blindfolded and driven off the hamlet tied backwards to a donkey's back.

[Curiosityness]

I think its a bunch of crap but hey, whatever gets you through the day